# Shibboleth SAML Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/queen-mary-university-of-london/shibboleth-saml-idp/  
**Provider:** Queen Mary University of London — https://apis.io/providers/queen-mary-university-of-london/  
**Base URL:** http://mdq.ukfederation.org.uk/entities/https%3A%2F%2Fidp.shibboleth.qmul.ac.uk%2Fidp%2Fshibboleth  
**Documentation:** https://www.qmul.ac.uk/its/

Shibboleth SAML Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation) is one of 11 APIs that [Queen Mary University of London](https://apis.io/providers/queen-mary-university-of-london/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity, SSO, SAML, Shibboleth, and Federation. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes authentication docs.

Queen Mary's own Shibboleth Identity Provider, entityID https://idp.shibboleth.qmul.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth, asserting shibmd:Scope "qmul.ac.uk". Its entity descriptor is published as signed, machine-readable SAML metadata through the Jisc UK Access Management Federation MDQ service and onward into eduGAIN, and was retrieved live on 2026-09-01. It advertises SAML 2.0, SAML 1.1 and the native Shibboleth authn profile over HTTP-Redirect, HTTP-POST, HTTP-POST-SimpleSign and SOAP artifact resolution and attribute query. Institution-operated by definition, and the surface class this cohort was most completely missing. It is not a public developer API: nothing can obtain an assertion without being registered as a service provider in the federation.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **x-saml-metadata** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/queen-mary-university-of-london/refs/heads/main/authentication/queen-mary-university-of-london-saml-idp-metadata.xml
- **IdentityFederation** — http://mdq.ukfederation.org.uk/entities/https%3A%2F%2Fidp.shibboleth.qmul.ac.uk%2Fidp%2Fshibboleth
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/queen-mary-university-of-london/refs/heads/main/authentication/queen-mary-university-of-london-authentication.yml
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/queen-mary-university-of-london/refs/heads/main/conformance/queen-mary-university-of-london-conformance.yml

## Other Queen Mary University of London APIs (10)

- [Queen Mary Research Online (QMRO) — DSpace 8.4 REST API](https://apis.io/apis/queen-mary-university-of-london/qmro-dspace-rest/)
- [QMplus LTI 1.3 Advantage Tool Platform](https://apis.io/apis/queen-mary-university-of-london/qmplus-lti-platform/)
- [QMplus Moodle Web Services (REST)](https://apis.io/apis/queen-mary-university-of-london/qmplus-moodle-webservices/)
- [Microsoft Entra ID Tenant — OpenID Connect Discovery](https://apis.io/apis/queen-mary-university-of-london/entra-id-tenant/)
- [Apocrita — Queen Mary Research Computing Service](https://apis.io/apis/queen-mary-university-of-london/apocrita-hpc/)
- [Library Search — Ex Libris Primo VE / Alma discovery tenancy](https://apis.io/apis/queen-mary-university-of-london/primo-ve-discovery/)
- [Queen Mary site and course search — SearchStax Solr tenancy](https://apis.io/apis/queen-mary-university-of-london/searchstax-site-search/)
- [DataCite member organisation and repository client](https://apis.io/apis/queen-mary-university-of-london/datacite-membership/)
- [Crossref member and DOI prefix](https://apis.io/apis/queen-mary-university-of-london/crossref-membership/)
- [ROR organisation identifier](https://apis.io/apis/queen-mary-university-of-london/ror-identifier/)

## Tags

Identity, SSO, SAML, Shibboleth, Federation, eduGAIN

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